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Friday, August 31, 2012

Controversial Nollywood actress and movie producer, Foluke Daramola is alleged to have being the reason behind the marriage break up between Lagos big boy, Kayode Salako and his wife, Olubukola, a pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God.

We gathered that the marriage of Kayode Salako to Pastor Olubukola Salako is in trouble and apparently heading for a divorce �due to external interference�.

The troubled marriage, which has lasted for 13 years, hit the rocks when Pastor Olubukola on July 13th, 2012 packed all her belongings from their Lagos matrimonial home and took the boys their union had produced to an undisclosed abode.

Sources say the respected female pastor may have also left stern instruction with members off her church, a Redeem Christian Church of God located inside Omole Estate in Lagos, never to disclose her where about to her husband who has since been doing everything possible to be in touch with her and the kids.

But when Kayode Salako was contacted about his collapsed marriage and the role played by Foluke Daramola in the divorce saga, he exonerated her but didn�t say if they are dating.

In his words: �It is my private life which I�m not supposed to make public but I will speak because of Foluke Daramola who is very close to me� My wife voluntarily moved out of my home about two months ago and the reason she gave was that my family members want to kill her, that she was no longer willing to live with me.

�Four days after she moved out her lawyers wrote to me notifying me of her intention to file for a divorce. Her reason was that my only brother was threatening to kill her. To my utmost surprise my wife moved out with 85% things in the house. She did this within eight days.�

However, sources say Foluke Daramola whose marriage crashed two years ago is always with Kayode Salako, who is a rich businessman, and many say it�s obvious they have something going.

A fire broke out killing some persons in Arepo village as pipeline vandals attempted to steal petroleum products.

Several burnt corpses have been seen at the scene of a pipeline fire n Arepo, Ogun State.

Officials of the Fire Service and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Thursday evening, battled to put out the fire that broke out from a bust pipeline.

The fire was allegedly caused by suspected vandals who burst the pipelines to siphon petroleum products.

An eye witness told PREMIUM TIMES that the fire started inside the Arepo forest on Wednesday as thick black smoke enveloped the air.

�The fire started on Wednesday. Firemen were there yesterday (Thursday), as at this morning (Friday), all we could see was thick black smoke in the air around the area of the fire,� the witness who referred to himself as Emmanuel said.

The South West Zonal Public Relations Officer of NEMA, Ibrahim Farinloye, said that more resources and equipment were being mobilised by a combined team of the agency as well as Federal and Ogun State Fire Service.

He confirmed that some dead bodies were sighted at the scene, although the actual figure could not be confirmedyet .

Meanwhile, Kareem Olanrewaju, the Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps in Ogun, said that the NNPC had been contacted at Mosinmi Depot.

�It is not the first time that pipeline will explode in that area. It is difficult to provide security in the place because it is a swampy area,� he said.

Mr. Olanrewaju said that the fire was difficult to put out because �the pipeline passes through the swamp thus making it difficult for rescue teams.�

Men of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Lagos State Police Command, have arrested a self-acclaimed undergraduate of a university in the southeast alleged to be a member of an 11-man robbery gang. The police said they recovered a pistol and 82 bullets from him.

The suspect, Nnagbo Emeka John, 23, who claimed to be a 100-level student of the Department of Education Foundation of the institution, said he came to Lagos to visit his friend (name withheld), who lodged him in a hotel at Mazamaza near Mile 2 in Lagos.

He stated that his friend asked him out one night but the outing ended up as a robbery operation. On the same day, he confessed that the gang carried out four operations within Lagos and Ogun states.

The suspect, according to the police, was arrested in a bushy area at Ejigbo, Lagos on 19 August, where he and other members of the gang had allegedly gone to share their loot.

During his arrest an English pistol and 82 live ammunition were found on him.

Speaking to P.M.NEWS, a source at the SARS said: �While armed with one AK47, one English pistol and two locally-made pistols, they robbed a hotel in Lagos. They also robbed at Akute, Ogun state and came back to Lagos on the same day to rob two popular hotels at Mafoluku, Oshodi.

�The suspect was arrested after they had shared their loot, while nine other members of the gang who were from Ogun state went back to their base. The suspect, who was not familiar with the state was arrested while his friend escaped.�

Nnagbo, who claimed to be ignorant of his friend�s business said: �I came to Lagos on 8 August, for holiday, to see a friend who is also from my village. He lodged me in a hotel at old Ojo Road, Mazamaza. He never told me that he was into armed robbery; he only told me that he sells fridge spare parts.

�On 19 August, he told me that we shall be going out with some friends. As we entered his friends� car, I saw a police gun (AK47). I started shivering but he told me that I should not worry, that they would not kill me.

�We first robbed at a hotel in Lagos. Because I do not know Lagos, I do not know the name of the place. We later moved to Akute, Ogun state, where we robbed a man in his house and collected his Lexus Jeep and some other valuables. Then we came back to Lagos and robbed two hotels.

�On that day I was not with a stable mind, as I was not comfortable but my friend told me not to worry. I was arrested after they had shared the loot and nine other gang members from Ogun state had gone back.

�I was not given anything from the loot. They said it was my first operation and I did not participate actively; and that my friend should give me part of his share. The pistol and the ammunition were kept in my bag by my friend who escaped when policemen accosted us and arrested me.�

The officer in-charge of the squad, Mr. Abba Kyari, a Superintendent of Police, said the suspect will be charged to court as soon as investigation is completed.

In a related incident, the State Investigation Bureau,(SIB), Lagos, has arrested 18 suspected armed robbers at a notorious brothel, popularly called Agbole, in Ejigbo area, Lagos State Southwest Nigeria.

The police recovered 82 live ammunitions, 0.9mm, four AK47 rifles, one baretta American pistol, two digital cameras and 16 mobile phones from the suspects.

A source said their arrest followed a tip off to the police by residents of the area who suspected the activities of criminals who were using the place as a hideout and a take off base.

It was learnt that the police stormed the place last Thursday and arrested those smoking indian hemp, gambling, prostitution and others.

P.M.NEWS gathered that when the police searched some rooms rented by the prostitutes, they discovered some arms and live ammunition and valuable items suspected to have been stolen from victims.

Investigations also revealed that the police knew that the place has been existing for long and they thrived because the owners of the Pako brothel used to bribe the police daily.

P.M.NEWS findings revealed that some police officers attached to Rapid Response Squard, RRS, usually trooped to the area to collect bribe on daily basis.

A source disclosed that the officers who usually visited in batches, usually sign a record book provided by the hotel management to collect either N500 or N1,000 per batch.

He said each time they refused to give the police money, they usually threatened the operators of the brothel that their girls will be arrested.

�They always come here to collect money from us. Often times, even RRS from Ikeja come and we give them N500 per group.

�At times, four or six teams come and collect money from us daily.

�Each time we refuse to give them money, they arrest our girls and other customers,� he said.

The source claimed that they do not sell indian hemp, saying that some of the customers who usually come to the place to patronise them smoke marijuana and they have to allow them in order to do their business.

When P.M.NEWS contacted police sources at SARS Ikeja who have now taken over the matter, their leader was not around to comment on the matter.

Sources told P.M.NEWS that SARS have commenced investigation into the matter.

The Lagos State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, could not be reached because her phone was switched off.

The residents in the area confirmed the incident and told our correspondents that normal business has since resumed at the place.

Na wa o, wonders shall never end in lagos,This happened yesterday afternoon at Adeniji Adele, Dolphin Estate, Phase 2. We gathered that a little girl ran into a woman's shop crying. The woman asked her why she was crying, but the little girl couldn't really express herself. She just kept pointing at a particular direction, and crying. Then a few minutes later, the shop owner saw a man approaching her shop and calling on the girl to follow him. The woman asked the man who he was and why he was after the girl. The man probably realized the women wasn't going to release the girl to him, so he tried to run. The woman raised an alarm immediately shouting ole ole, thinking he was a kidnapper, not knowing he had done something much worse.

Youths in the area thinking the man was a thief descended on him. The man kept saying he wasn't a thief that the little girl was known to him. They turned to the girl and pressured her to tell them what the guy had done to her; the 3 year old told them that the man had taken her to the last floor of a 3 story building and hurt her. They checked the girl's panties and saw blood all over her private area. The blood had even dropped to her legs but nobody noticed on time.

On hearing this, the youths descended on him once again, this time more brutal. They stripped him unclad, and beat him with stick, stones, bottles, etc until someone called the police who then took him away.

Top Nigerian female gospel singer, Kenny Saint Best popularly known as KSB has gone tough on Mavin Records boss, Don Jazzy and his artiste, Wande Coal over the latter's alleged X-rated content in his new music video 'Go Low'.

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According to her twitter post, she said��God will stop you.�

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�The Kennis Music artiste� posted a series of tweets lampooning the duo shortly after the release of Wande Coal�s new video, Go Low. Maintaining that the quasi-nude dancer in the video was a thumb down for her.

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�KSB�continued �My dear brother, Wande Coal, the mercy and favour of God are the elements that brought you this far not nude girls in your video.�

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Now addressing the duo, she continues, �You are bringing nudity back to Nigeria videos to increase cases of rape in our society. Please, stop it.�

Indeed, rape is a sensitive issue in the Nigerian society and elsewhere but taking on these artistes especially on Twitter where they have a groundswell of fans and followers was perhaps KSB�s greatest undoing as she inadvertently opened a floodgate of hate tweets. Mum was the word from Mavin Records.

Just like he did 10 years ago, former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo�once again criticised rapper Eedris Abdulkareem over his hit song �Jaga jaga,�.

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Obasanjo had hit back at the artiste when the album was freshly released, with some people quoting him as saying it was the singer�s father�s house that was jagajaga.

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While many people may largely agree with the singer that the country is truly upside down based on the state of things, Obasanjo, has again described the song as being blasphemous. According to him producing such a song shows that the artiste does not believe in the future of the country.

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The former president made the remarks in Lagos on Tuesday while speaking at a forum organised by the Nigeria Leadership Initiative. Obasanjo also expressed his passion to see the country excel.

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Expressing his disdain for the attitude of some Nigerians, he said one of the worst problems Nigeria is facing is disbelief.

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�Nigerians no longer believe in themselves; neither do they believe in their country. That takes me back to that song �jaga jaga�. How could a sane man dare to call his country jaga jaga?� he said.

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��It is the height of blasphemy. We are grooming our youths for tomorrow�s leadership and with such persons, I don�t think the country can move forward.�

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The former president has never hesitated to express his displeasure at Abdulkareem, a former member of The Remedies, for deriding Nigeria.

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The hit track of the album released on Kennis Music label was banned from radio airplay by the president in a televised address, although it enjoyed continued play in nightclubs.

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Abdulkareem had a chance to reply Obasanjo in January during the fuel subsidy protest. He said, �The man wey say i dey craze because I sing Nigeria Jaga Jaga where him dey now inside this hardship? Na 2002 I sing Nigeria Jaga Jaga, na 2012 we dey so o.�

Due to the recent controversy surrounding the MTN Ultimate Wonder promo, in which a lucky winner will win a brand new aircraft, Telecommunication giants,�MTN have again assured�its new and existing subscribers of its commitment to fulfill its promise of rewarding the winner of its ongoing Ultimate Wonder Promo with an airplane�

The company�s General Manager, Consumer Marketing, Kola Oyeyemi, spoke in Lagos while launching the company�s Ultimate Wonder Draw, which will see a Nigerian winning a brand new 2012 Cessna 182T aircraft.

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Oyeyemi said: �For many people, it�s so hard to believe that we are giving out an aeroplane which for me is understandable because no other brand has done it. This is what makes us the market leader.�

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�Remember the N1billion promo where we shelled out N1billion to 100 lucky winners? It looked impossible until we made it happen. The automania game is ongoing, so far we have given out over 86 Hyundai ix35 SUVs,� he said reiterating MTN�s commitment to the continuous engagement of the market through exciting and innovative promos.

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He advised Nigerians to ensure they �recharge up to N3, 000 in the next 90 days of this promo to qualify for the star prize and other mouth-watering cash prizes

The good times are back again. Yes! After an uncertain period of time not knowing whether, he was going to go back to England or he would be retained in Turkey. The answer was finally sorted as the much loved Captain of the Nigerian National Football team- The Super Eagles, Captain Joseph Yobo, who is also Nigeria's most capped footballer till date, finally put pen to paper and sealed a 3 years deal with the Nos 1 team in the Turkish League- Fenerbahce Fc of Turkey. According to our bird with very large ears, the 3 years deal would cost the Turkish team in excess of $10Million dollars, which in Naira translate to about N1.6 Billion Naira, that's not all: he is also entitled to another $1Million Dollars in Bonuses per year, this translate to another 160 Million Naira every year for the next 3 years. That's another 480 Million to be added to the 1.6 Billion contract.

From the little we could gather, Fenerbahce paid his former club in England, Everton FC, $2.5 Million dollars to facilitate the full transfer, that had been dragging on for 2 seasons now,this made JY who is referred to as the 'Prince of Istanbul' by the many vociferous fans of Fenerbahce FC to spend 2 seasons on loan at the Turkish Club before this deal was finally sealed.

The beauty of the contract signed by JY from what we can gather, is that all the payment is ''TAX FREE'' unlike in the UK where 35% tax is deducted from source from their salaries. So men this is what life should be like.

�Please be very careful what you easily fall for. There are some persons going around creating false Facebook pages or names, claiming they are Pastor E. A. Adeboye."

General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor E.A. Adeboye, has disclosed that some people are now impersonating him on social networking site, Facebook.

He said the impersonators were fond of demanding money from unsuspecting members of the public and he (Adeboye) urged people to verify the authenticity of messages credited to him before heeding to such instructions.

Daddy GO, as he's fondly called, said "All you have to do is a search for them on Facebook and they will add you and then pretend to be me, telling you to send some money into an account and because they know you will obey me, they are using this as a new form of fraud.

"Please stop them and report those pages to Facebook so they can be stopped.�

Adeboye said a member of the church had reported to him on how he had been ordered by an impersonator to pay certain sums of money into a bank account for a trip to India.

Yesterday there was a serious fire outbreak at the Lagos university Teaching Hospital in Lagos. Several people including sick children are reportedly trapped in the inferno according to Nigerian emergency officials.

The source of the fire is yet unknown and the oxygen tanks in the ward were said to have exploded when they were contacted by fire.

A policeman serving with the Bauchi State Police Command has been arrested for allegedly having anal sex with children between the ages of nine and twelve. The state�s Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Ladan, confirmed the incident while speaking with Daily Trust. �A division was investigating the matter, but I have directed them to transfer the case to the state�s Criminal Investigation Department (SCID). �The accused is in detention at the moment, and after investigation, we will make our discovery known to the public�, he said.

A source told Daily Trust that the policeman was accused to have slept with about eight children in Kandahar area of Bauchi metropolis. He said the policeman was arrested following reports by some parents. A senior staff at the Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, who doesn�t want his name in print told Daily Trust correspondent that about nine children were brought to the pediatric ward of the hospital by the policemen from the state�s Criminal Investigation Department for treatment.

Rich Oganiru, according to those who know him, he loves money and attention almost to a fault, aside that, he also likes blowing his own trumpet as he always praises himself, but all these came to light when he confessed to police that he poisoned his wife, a top business woman in Abuja to get all her property.

We gathered that the deceased met Rich Oganiru who already lost his wife and mother of his two boys at a time he was facing financially challenges and could hardly afford daily meal. Rich, our source explained was able to win the pretty woman�s heart after sweet tonguing her especially because he�s a known face who�s featured in several movies. �

This, we further gathered was how the woman in a short while brought back smile to the face of the light skinned actor, who became financially buoyant and had even started cruising one of her cars. The relationship as expected blossomed into marriage, without second thought his wealthy wife officially gave him authorization to all her firm. The union, we learnt however took a new dimension when Rich began to complain of his wife�s inability to get pregnant.

After a while of complains on his wife bareness, Mr. Rich started seeing a younger lover, Iyaka , and undergraduate of Nassarawa State Polytechnic.

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Quoting the source �It was Rich�s unnecessary pressure on the lady that made her resulted into having a fibroid operation in a private hospital in Abuja which she luckily survived but only recuperating at the hospital before she was allegedly poisoned�.

Mr. Rich secret started looking suspicious when Rich who had sold some of his wife�s landed property for a church member. At the same time told the doctor that he has personal issues which he will need to get hold of his wife's death certificate as soon as possible instead of informing the wife's family or at least show a �remorse for irreparable loss.

Meanwhile, the doctor said he wasn't sure of what happened, therefore suggested an autopsy which shockingly revealed a poisonous pill in the woman�s system. The said poison we gathered was ingested between the time her husband visited the night before she died.

The nurses were also said to have saw her sleeping few minutes after Rich left not knowing that she was dead in her sleep. The actor, our source added later confessed killing his wife after much torture in police cell without any cogent reason. We also learnt that Rich is still in the police custody in Abuja while remains of his wife have been deposited in the mortuary.

records of former and current members of Nigeria's top domestic spy agency, including home addresses and names of immediate family members, leaked onto the Internet in a threatening message that claimed to come from a radical Islamist sect that's killed hundreds of people this year alone, The Associated Press has learned.

The leak of personal data of more than 60 past and current employees of Nigeria's State Security Service remained easily accessible on the Internet for days and had details about the agency's director-general, including his mobile phone number, bank account particulars and contact information for his son. Many of agents listed who could be reached by the AP said they received no official warning from the spy agency that their information had been posted online nor been otherwise alerted. The material has been deleted from the comment section of a website, but the security breach astonished veterans and calls into question whether Nigeria's intelligence community, whose agents already have released suspected terrorists out of religious and ethnic sympathies are too compromised from within to stop the violence now plaguing Africa's most populous nation.

"This is a national embarrassment," said one Nigerian intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as information about the leak was not to have been made public.

Marilyn Ogar, a spokeswoman for the State Security Service, did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday about the leak.

The State Security Service, created in 1986 by then-military ruler Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, monitors domestic dissent in Nigeria, an oil-rich nation of more than 160 million people. Though geared toward stopping terrorism and destabilizing coups, the agency routinely faces criticism for targeting government critics. In Abuja, Nigeria's capital, the agency operates out of cars made to look like the many green taxis that roam the streets. Plain-clothed agents of the service routinely question foreign journalists at airports, border crossings and on city streets if they see reporters conducting interviews. Agents carrying assault rifles often guard major events in the country.

Many agents for the typically secretive agency are preoccupied with concealing their identities, as most try to blend unnoticed into society.

The information leak came in two postings earlier this month on a website that provides rewritten news on Nigeria. The first posting threatened to kill agents of the State Security Service on behalf of Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect responsible for more than 660 killings this year alone in Nigeria. The second posting simply offered a block of text containing biographical and other details about the agents.

Though the comments have been removed, the AP is not identifying the website involved as cached versions of the comments remain online and intelligence service agents have been killed by Boko Haram members in the past.

The list includes former and current agents across the country, including Director-General Ekpeyong Ita. Those reached by the AP who were willing to talk expressed disbelief that sensitive information like that could make its way to the Internet.

"I was shocked to see my details posted on the Internet," said one former agent, who declined to be named out of safety concerns. "I've not heard anything from anybody. I was surprised that such information could be leaked."

Another man on the list said he simply once served as a doctor to help the agency on an on-call basis only. The list appeared to include lower-ranking agents, as well as one-time state directors for the agency.

Some of those contacted suggested that the list appeared to come from the agency's pension department, as it mostly included retirees and listed bank account information for nearly all those named.

The release of the information comes as Nigeria's intelligence agencies have made a series of blunders in trying to fight Boko Haram in Africa's most populous country, with some likely influenced by ethnic or religious sentiments. Intelligence agencies allegedly released a suspected Islamic radical in 2007 who later masterminded Boko Haram's suicide car bombing of the U.N. headquarters in August 2011 that killed at least 25 people and wounded more than 100 others, officials previously told the AP. A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable also show U.S. officials complained in 2008 about Nigeria's government quietly releasing other suspects into the custody of Islamic leaders as part of a program it called "Perception Management."

Another U.S. diplomatic cable complains that State Security Service agents nearly let a suspected bomb maker trained by the Somali terror group al-Shabab onto an international flight, despite an Interpol notice for his arrest. The agents who allegedly tried to release Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed "not only knew about the Interpol notice, but simply said they did not want to hold him any longer," the February 2010 cable read.

Ahmed, an Eritrean, pleaded guilty to charges in June in a U.S. federal court that he supported terrorism by associating with al-Shabab, a terror group with links to al-Qaida. He faces up to 10 years in prison.

Most of those on the leaked list of agents reached by the AP said no one from the federal government or the spy agency warned them that their personnel information had appeared on the Internet. Instead, colleagues and other former agents called each other to spread the news and later contacted the State Security Service themselves to report the breach.

It is unclear if the person who posted the information online really does have ties to Boko Haram, which has targeted security officials in the past. Violence has been centered mostly in the country's Muslim north. One retired agent who spoke to AP said he was grateful he lives in the largely Christian south, away from the sect's attacks.

"It's worrying that they have access to that," the agent said. "Those living in Abuja (and the north) are the ones who should living in fear."

I guess we all remember the popular Silverbird Tv presenter, Yvonne Ekwerre, whose her car was stolen at Oriental Hotel a month ago . We might have thought that was the end of that episode but not for her, according to she post on her tweeter.� read her tweet below:

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�I�m ready for WAR. U can�t take what belongs to me and expect me to stay quiet for too long�They don�t want to be civil, then I�ll go STREET�Anyone who knows them should tell �em sh*t is about to get CRAY.

�I�m fed up!�How the hell should ppl feel safe in an establishment of that magnitude. U steal my property 2day, what will happen next time? Get raped in d parking lot?�Trouble sleep yanga wake am�u don�t mess with a wounded lioness.

Thursday, August 30, 2012

A handsome, charismatic preacher was busted recently for allegedly passing the HIV virus to unsuspecting female church members during sexual liaisons.

Pastor Craig Lamar Davis, who is married, is the former pastor of Full Gospel Baptist Church in Atlanta, where he preached rousing sermons and dispensed advice to lonely women. But Pastor Davis was allegedly passing on more than advice and counseling in his role as a spiritual leader.

The pastor was arrested for reckless conduct after police found that he was sleeping with several women with whom he was not married. A woman by the name of Ronita McAfee says that she met the pastor on Facebook and began sleeping with him.

Ronita says that she became concerned when one of the pastor�s ex-girlfriends called her to say that she had HIV. She claims that the pastor then counseled her � and told her to get tested. Davis then says that she noticed that the pastor himself was not interested in getting tested, even though she had also contracted HIV. This is what prompted her to seek out a warrant for his arrest.

The level of infidelity in marriages these days is so scary, some unmarried people are beginning to wonder if marriage is worth it afterall. Why do people get married and still continue to sleep around?

A married man, Amaechi Uche Padmore, has been arrested and charged to a Lagos court on the allegation that his lover, Edith Nwokolo, another man's wife, died while he was having s�x with her.

Uche is now facing a murder charge at Ebute Metta Magistrate�s court, Lagos over her death.�

The lovers, who are both married, engaged in s�x romp at 94, Mushin Road, Mushin, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. It was gathered that while Uche was on top of Edith, she started breathing heavily, jerked and died. They were reported to have dated each other before they got married to different spouses.�

Sources said immediately the incident happened, Uche, who has three kids, abandoned his pant and shoes and fled. Edith was found dead on top of abed and a neigbour who saw�Uche with her before she died, raised the alarm and the matter was reported to the police at Olosan Division.�

He was arrested and arraigned on Wednesday for murder before the�presiding Magistrate, Mr. T. Aborinwa under section 221 of the criminal code law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2011.

Her death triggered controversy as the deceased woman�s family insisted that Uche was responsible. But the autopsy report presented at the court showed that she died of heart related problem. When the matter came up at the court, Uche pleaded not guilty.

The presiding magistrate granted him bail since the autopsy showed she died as a result of heart problem.

A Brazilian man was arrested for trying to board a flight at Orlando International Airport while carrying 27 snakes that he'd wrapped in pantyhose and stashed away in inside stereo speakers, authorities said.

(Orange County Jail)Mateus Del Maso, Jr. checked the speakers as luggage, but they were inspected and the snakes hidden inside were discovered. The creatures never made it onto the aircraft.

Dal Maso purchased the serpents at the National Reptile Breeders Expo in Daytona Beach, Fla. He admitted he was going to carry the snakes - which he valued at about $10,000 - into Brazil and breed them for commercial purposes, a release from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said.

He did not have the proper authorization to take the reptiles - one ball python, seven boa constrictors, and 19 color morph corn snakes - into Brazil.

Dal Maso pleaded guilty on Aug. 23 to attempting to smuggle the snakes. He served two days in Orange County Jail and was fined $6,000. He was also sentenced to one year of supervised release, and must report to a probation officer within 72 hours of his arrival if he ever returns to the U.S.

The snakes were taken to an undisclosed care facility.

The arrest came about as a result of a multi-agency law enforcement operation that's been dubbed "Operation Snake Pit." The program seeks to prevent the illegal shipping of reptiles.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

The police in Ogun State on Tuesday paraded Pastor Michael Oyewole (29) and his accomplice Mathew Akiode (30) at the command�s headquarters Eleweran, for allegedly exhuming human skull in Sabo, Abeokuta.

The state Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye, stated that Akiode was caught committing the offence in the midnight.

The Police arrested the suspect who was unaware he was being watched after he severed the head from the body following a tip off. Akiode is said to have confessed after his arrest that he was sent by a pastor.

The police commissioner said Pastor Michael Oyewole was subsequently arrested.

The Pastor,attached to a Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Abeokuta denies all allegations saying�I am a man of God and pastor. I heal people in God�s name and not with human skull�.

Akiode on the hand said �I�m surprised at his denial. He taught me how to go about it,he said I would make more money if I could get him human skull. So, I felt it was an easy way of making money and that was why I did it.�

The two suspects have now being charged to Court

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A newly married woman, Mrs. Ify Anyanwu has arrested and charged to a Lagos court her husband�s bestman, Chris Abasuonu for assaulting her when she demanded the suit he wore as her husband�s bestman during their wedding.

The 31- year old Chris was charged before Apapa Magistrate�s court where he was remanded in prison custody.

Trouble started between the couple and Chris on their wedding day.

P.M.NEWS learnt that Chris started demanding N11,000 from Ify�s husband, saying that was the amount he spent on sewing his suit for the wedding.

When the woman heard it, she felt embarrassed and shocked over Chris� attitude just as the couple was settling down after the wedding.

She reportedly gave him the money and asked him to return the suit since he had collected the money.

Though Chris said he collected the money, he did not return the suit.

According to Ify, after the wedding, Chris started telling neighbours that her husband borrowed money for their wedding.

She said Chris later started demanding from them the money he used to sew the suit on their wedding day, threatening to embarrass them publicly.

�We raised the money and gave him and asked him to return the suit,� she said.

She said after waiting in vain for him to return it, she went to his house at 74, Yaya Crescent, Olodi Apapa, Lagos to collect it.

Ify said when she knocked and entered his room and told him her mission, he locked her inside his room and held her neck and pushed her to the wall.

She said she started shouting for help before their neighbours intervened.

In his defence, Chris told P.M.NEWS that he had an agreement with Ify�s husband that he will pay him the money after the wedding.

He said he only demanded his money before the wife got angry and came to his house to demand for the suit.

The action of Chris landed him in court where he is facing a three-count charge of assault, false imprisonment and stealing.

The offences he committed are contrary to Sections 166, 171 and 285 of the Criminal Code Law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2011.

After he pleaded not guilty, the Magistrate, Mrs. A. K. Shonubi, granted him bail in the sum of N30,000 with one surety in like sum.

The matter was adjourned till 25 September, 2012, while Chris was remanded in prison custody until he meets his bail condition.

Culled from: PM,News

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A bomb planted at the West End roundabout in Maiduguri, Tuesday, injured several members of the Joint Task Force in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

According to eyewitnesses, the large bomb embedded at the popular roundabout was remotely controlled and exploded around 10 am.

The JTF spokesperson, Lt. Col Musa Sagir, confirmed there were explosions in the city but said a full briefing will be made to the media as the task force was still actively patrolling the city to determine those responsible for the attacks. Details later.

This criminals dont want dialog. GEJ should finish dem

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The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Ebonyi State command, Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, Sylvester Igbo,� said the suspect who hailed from Umuoru village in Ohaukwu Local government area of the state, was arrested alongside one Mr. Izuchukwu Okeke alleged to have linked the suspect to the buyer, Mrs. Nkiruka Okonkwo.

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Vanguard gathered that Mrs. Okonkwo who bought the child for N100, 000 however, took to her heels when argument ensued on the rightful ownership of the child.

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Igbo told newsmen that the command was able to unravel the circumstances behind the missing child, when it became obvious that the boy was last seen with the suspect who sold him (the child) at Awka in Anambra state.

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�When the parent was looking for the child, the woman (suspect) was also worried and was searching for the child until the information came that the child was seen with the very woman and that she was pretending as if she did not know anything about the missing child. When the pressure became too much for her due to police interrogation, she had to confess to the crime.�

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He called on members of the public to always give useful information to the police, assuring that their identity would� be protected even as he warned parents not to leave their children under the care of people with questionable character.

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The suspect, Mrs Elizabeth, who spoke in pidgin confessed to the crime, saying, �Na devil. I steal the child and sold him to Mr Izuchukwu Okeke, who gave me the connection. Aloysius is my brother�.

Culled: Vanguard Nigeria

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ABAKALIKI � EBONYI State Police Command, said, Tuesday, that it had arrested seven suspects in connection with the ritual murder of little Miss Ukamaka Immaculata Ogboji, 7, on Sunday at Agubia� in Ikwo Local Government Area of the state.

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The command which commended the effort of the community under the aegis of Ebonyi Youth Assembly, EYA, in the arrest of the suspects, noted that the suspects who had earlier kidnapped Miss Ogboji for monetary gains, later, dismembered her body and dumped same in a cassava farm in the area.

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Confirming the arrest of the suspects,� Ebonyi� State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Sylvester Igbo, noted that two of the suspects arrested had confessed to the crime stressing,� that the police had begun full investigation to ascertain the motive behind the brutal killing of the deceased.

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He said: �Seven persons suspected to have killed little Miss Ukamaka Immaculata Ogboji on Sunday at Agubia in Ikwo Local Government Area of the state, have been arrested and will soon be paraded. What we have observed at the scene made us to attribute the killing to ritual killing and not kidnapping because the corpse of the deceased was without two legs, hands and eyes.

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�From the act, it is a ritual killing. Through police investigation, we have been able to arrest seven suspects among whom, two have confessed to the crime. One of them confessed that his mother was the spiritual mother of the girl when she was baptised.�

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A 54-year-old generator repairer has been sent to jail for allegedly sleeping with his 16-year old daughter and impregnating her in Lagos.

The man, Mr. Tajudeen Sanni, who hails from Oyo State, was charged to the Family Court, Kakawa, Lagos, for impregnating his daughter and subsequently sent to Ikoyi Prison as he could not perfect his bail condition on time.

The 16-year old girl (name withheld) is now in custody of the Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation for adequate care.

The victim had accused her father of sleeping with her several times, resulting in her being pregnant.

Sanni was first detained at the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit where he allegedly confessed that he slept with his daughter four times but denied the pregnancy.

He stated that his daughter was already deflowered before he slept with her, saying that she could have gotten pregnant by other people who slept with her.

At the Family Court, presided over by Magistrate E.B. Dawodu, the accused was slammed with a two-count charge of having indecent carnal knowledge of his daughter and for sexually assaulting her.

Sanni pleaded not guilty and was granted bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum.

The case was adjourned till 3 September, 2012.

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

A magazine in Spain, Magazine Fuera de Serie, has published a photoshopped image of a partially nude First Lady Michelle Obama. The image shows FLOTUS sitting in a chair, covered with what appears to be an American flag, with one of her breasts exposed.

It looks as if the first black First Lady has been remade into a slave wearing a head wrap, thanks to technology.

The Half-Nude Picture Of Michelle Obama

The question which immediately comes to mind is, did anyone ever publish a nude magazine cover of Laura Bush? What about Barbara? Hillary? Of course not, but it seems

that, even as First Lady, white people across the globe feel that they can use Michelle Obama�s image for whatever purpose they desire.

If they desire to see her naked, then so be it, regardless of whether or not she�s married, or

who she�s married to. Married to the leader of the most powerful country in the world? No matter. Show me your titty. And so it goes.

In a white supremacist structure, it doesn�t matter how much a black person achieves, he or she is still just an object to be whimsically used and discarded.

In this instance, Michelle Obama�s face was superimposed on the body of an African Guadeloupean female slave painted by French

artist Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist in 1800. To you, FLOTUS is a brilliant attorney and an excellent First Lady, but to the folks at Magazine Fuera de Serie, she�s still just a slave. Best not let her, or us, forget that.

To the artist�s credit, she has done other famous nudes, some of them white. But the idea that Michelle Obama�s face would be superimposed on a slave�s body has special meaning, and anyone with half a brain would know that.

I�m sure the artist, Karine Percheron-Daniels, knows that this representation of Obama shows her as submissive and powerless. And that wasn�t by accident. That was the plan.

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It is the largest and biggest street carnival in Europe and it holds annually in London- the Notting Hill Carnival is what it is called.

Dancers dressed in colourful plumage and bejewelled bikinis made their way through the

streets of west London as hundreds of thousands of people watched the annual festivities.

It is estimated that the event is

attended by a million people in a single day. The carnival which is in its 48th year and expected to come to a climax after two days of non-stop excitement and beautiful

display of different cultures and traditions, saw the addition of 2,000 police officers drafted in

yesterday to bring the total on duty at the carnival to 7,000.....

The Big Question is, if this were to be, say the Lagos Carnival, and (wo)men of the Nigerian Police are caught on camera in this sort of poses, what do you think will happen to them? What will you say?

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Bolorunduro village in Ondo State was thrown into mourning last Wednesday when a family of five died after eating amala (yam flour). The names of the deceased were given as Michael Onoja,56; his wife, Comfort 42, Monday, 24; Patience, 21; and the eight-year-old grandchild, Joy Odoh.

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A police source told our correspondent that when Onoja returned from his farm on the fateful day, he instructed his daughter, Patience, to prepare amala for the family to eat.

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The source said, �Some hours after the meal, Joy, who was spending the holidays with the family started complaining of stomach pain and shortly after, slumped. She died later at a nearby government hospital.�

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It was learnt that the little girl was buried the following day.

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The source said, �Few hours after Joy was buried, other members of the family started having stomach pains and were rushed to the hospital. It was at the hospital that Onoja told his neighbours that the family ate amala, and that they had not eaten any other food after that. He and the family members died one after the other shortly after that.�

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The source said the corpse of the deceased had been deposited at the mortuary of the state Specialist Hospital, Akure while autopsy had yet to be conducted.

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Meanwhile, Public Relations Officer of the state police command, Mr, Aremu Adeniran, said the police had commenced investigation into the incident.

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He said, �The matter had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department in order to ensure proper investigation.�

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Culled from: Punch

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Fifteen men and two women have been found beheaded in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province. Officials said the victims were killed by Taliban insurgents as punishment for attending a mixed-sex party with music and dancing.

The bodies were found in a house near the Musa Qala district, 46 miles north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, on Monday, said the district governor Nimatullah, who goes by only one name.

"The victims threw a late-night dance and music party when the Taliban attacked," on Sunday night, Nimatullah told Reuters.

There were no immediate claims of responsibility.

Men and women do not usually mingle in Afghanistan unless they are related, and parties involving both genders are rare and highly secretive affairs.

For the Taliban, flirting, open displays of affection and the mixing of men and women are vehemently condemned.

In June, Taliban gunmen stormed a luxury hotel near Kabul demanding to know where the "LovePeddlers and pimps" were, according to witnesses. Twenty people were killed.

The Taliban said it launched that attack on Qarga Lake because the hotel was used for "wild parties".

During their five-year reign, which was ended by US-backed Afghan forces in 2001, the Taliban banned women from voting, most work and leaving their homes unaccompanied by their husband or a male relative.

Those rights have been painstakingly regained but Afghanistan remains one of the worst places on earth to be a woman.

A spokesman for the Helmand governor, Daud Ahmadi, said a team had been sent to the site of the beheadings to investigate.

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